OK, people, it’s time for a pop quiz. Please take out a No. 2 pencil and match the following three terms with their definitions:

1) bezoar

2) trogon

3) bushkazi

A) A fur hat traditionally worn by the players of Afghanistan’s national sport, a polo-like game played on horseback.

B) An insect-eating bird, whose name comes from the Greek word for “nibbling.”

C) A hardened mass of undigested material, such as plant fiber or hair, commonly found in the intestines of cows and goats.

All right, pencils down. If you answered 1C, 2B and 3A, you’re correct. And if you didn’t, well, you might want to spend some time with the “Cabinet of Curiosities” in Iowa State’s Morrill Hall. It’s a very cool, very strange collection of 150-some odds and ends plucked from the dustiest corners of the university’s research closets. Among the finds: a gorilla skeleton; a 19th century doll coffin; three Indonesian shadow puppets; three deer-bone fishhooks from 3,000 years ago, found in Polk County; a Nigerian snakeskin purse, supposedly cured with human urine; and the head of a cat, pickled in a jar.

“People had no idea Iowa State has these objects because many of them have been hidden away for years,” said Allison Sheridan, collections manager and communication coordinator for Iowa State University Museums.

She and museums director Lynette Pohlman conceived the exhibition after a visit to a similar show last spring at the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis, but the tradition is hardly new. The Germans coined the word “wunderkammer” — cabinet of wonder — centuries before “Hoarders” showed up on reality TV.

“It’s the clutter that really makes the exhibit,” Sheridan said of the stuff, which she and co-curator Jennifer Munoz placed in a dozen wooden cabinets. It feels less like a gallery than a fusty antiques shop filled with ancient artifacts, weird taxidermy and no fewer than seven animal skulls (eight if you count that cat).

The exhibit opened last fall and sparked enough interest to persuade the museums staff to extend it through April 21, after the annual VEISHEA festival. That means Iowa State students can either proceed with their regularly scheduled classes, which begin next Monday, or play hooky and spend most of the spring semester in the basement of Morrill Hall.